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Maintenance page / local website that includes subfolders
- Jan 22, 2026
I converted all files to 1 file. Merged css into the html file and also merged the images into the html with base64 encoding
Yeah — unfortunately iFiles doesn’t really support true folder uploads the way a normal filesystem does, so everything ends up dumped into one flat list (which gets messy fast, like you said).
What usually works better is:
Zip the whole maintenance page (index.html + css + img folders) into one archive
Upload the ZIP
Extract it server-side (via SSH or file manager, if available)
That way your folder structure stays intact and you avoid uploading 10+ files individually.
I’ve run into similar “organization headaches” when managing game assets too — kinda like testing configs while comparing setups in hill climb racing best vehicle runs… structure matters way more than people think
- Emil_TrJan 25, 2026
Cirrus
Sounds interesting.
1. When creating iFile list, does the F5 allow you to select the files from the extracted subfolders?
2. What happens once you extract the ZIP file? Do you still need to create an iFile list after the import? In the "iFile list" phase, do we still need to create the iFiles one by one and without any folder structure?
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